{"id":15006,"date":"2009-06-12T08:37:11","date_gmt":"2009-06-12T14:37:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/?p=15006"},"modified":"2013-06-05T17:12:40","modified_gmt":"2013-06-05T23:12:40","slug":"left-is-right-up-is-down-and-other-news-commentary","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2009\/06\/12\/left-is-right-up-is-down-and-other-news-commentary.html","title":{"rendered":"Left is Right, Up is Down, and other news commentary"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Marvel as Glenn Beck and a guy from the Ayn Rand Institute assert\u00a0that the racist anti-semite who attacked the National Holocaust Museum is &#8220;a phenomenon of the Left.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><object width=\"425\" height=\"344\" classid=\"clsid:d27cdb6e-ae6d-11cf-96b8-444553540000\" codebase=\"http:\/\/download.macromedia.com\/pub\/shockwave\/cabs\/flash\/swflash.cab#version=6,0,40,0\"><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\" \/><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\" \/><param name=\"src\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/iOs6F1FpVlo&amp;hl=en&amp;fs=1&amp;\" \/><param name=\"allowfullscreen\" value=\"true\" \/><\/object><\/p>\n<p>No, seriously. See, Hitler ran the National <em>Socialist <\/em>Party. He&#8217;s just like Obama. And racism is collectivism, which is &#8220;a value of the Left.&#8221; You can tell because Rev Jeremiah Wright is also an anti-Semite.<\/p>\n<p>Well, glad <em>that&#8217;s <\/em>all cleared up now.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Marvel as Glenn Beck and a guy from the Ayn Rand Institute assert\u00a0that the racist anti-semite who attacked the National Holocaust Museum is &#8220;a phenomenon of the Left.&#8221; No, seriously. See, Hitler ran the National Socialist Party. He&#8217;s just like Obama. And racism is collectivism, which is &#8220;a value of the Left.&#8221; You can tell &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2009\/06\/12\/left-is-right-up-is-down-and-other-news-commentary.html\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Left is Right, Up is Down, and other news commentary&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_robots_follow":"","_seopress_robots_imageindex":"","_seopress_robots_snippet":"","_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_robots_breadcrumbs":"","_seopress_robots_freeze_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_custom_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_canonical":"","_seopress_social_fb_title":"","_seopress_social_fb_desc":"","_seopress_social_fb_img":"","_seopress_social_fb_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_height":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_title":"","_seopress_social_twitter_desc":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_height":0,"_seopress_redirections_value":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled_regex":"","_seopress_redirections_logged_status":"","_seopress_redirections_param":"","_seopress_redirections_type":0,"_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[100,12,9,378],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15006","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dolts","category-fourth-estate","category-politics-law","category-intolerance-persecution"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":130980,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2016\/07\/04\/repost-with-dogs-smirk-about-fleas.html","url_meta":{"origin":15006,"position":0},"title":"Repost with dogs, smirk about fleas","author":"***Dave","date":"Mon 4-Jul-16 12:44pm","format":false,"excerpt":"I'm by no means prepared to say that Donald Trump is a racist or anti-Semite, but he has demonstrated time and time and time again that he and his campaign are willing to repost in social media memes and images and tweets and comments from white nationalists and racists and\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;~PlusPosts&quot;","block_context":{"text":"~PlusPosts","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/category\/blogging\/plusposts"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":138076,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2019\/03\/05\/allegiance.html","url_meta":{"origin":15006,"position":1},"title":"Allegiance","author":"***Dave","date":"Tue 5-Mar-19 7:25pm","format":false,"excerpt":"I've read Rep. 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